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03:35 6.6.2026

Kuwaiti authorities on June 6 said the small Gulf nation’s military was responding to “hostile” missile and drone attacks, three days after an Iranian strike on the international airport killed one person and injured 63 others.

“Kuwaiti air defenses are currently confronting hostile missile and drone attacks,” the army said on X.

The army’s General Staff warned that if explosion sounds are heard, “they are the result of air defense systems intercepting the hostile attacks.”

The statement did not specify the origin of the missiles and drones, but on June 3, the country’s interior minister called the deadly attack on the country’s airport “a heinous Iranian aggression.”

Separately, the Bahrain Interior Ministry early on June 6 said that air raid sirens were sounded throughout the Gulf nation, also a US ally. Details were not immediately available.

Iran’s hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) early on June 6 claimed that it had fired air-launched missiles toward US bases in the region. Kuwait and Bahrain both host US military assets.

Oil-rich Kuwait has often been a target of Iranian missile and drone attacks since the start of the US-Israeli war with Iran at the end of February.

The latest strike comes after the US State Department announced that the Trump administration had approved a possible $1.98 billion foreign military sale to Kuwait for counter-unmanned aerial systems platforms and related equipment.

The approval does not mean a contract has been signed or that negotiations have concluded. Congressional notification is required for major foreign military sales.

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